Visualized Cancer Medicine

Concerning the use of AI in writing the research content, EDP Sciences adheres to the position of COPE. AI tools cannot be listed as author of a paper. AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship and cannot take responsibility for the submitted work, assert conflicts of interest, or manage copyright and license agreements. Authors must be transparent in disclosing how AI tools were used i…

Authorship criteria follow ICMJE recommendations; non-author contributors shall be acknowledged. Model summary

The ICMJE recommends that all those designated as authors meet all of the criteria they describe. The list of criteria is available at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/. Those contributors who do not meet all of the criteria shall be acknowledged.

Authors must disclose whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. They should also state that they have full control of all primary data and that they agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested. Therefore the manuscript must be accompanied by the "Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form" at the initial submission. Any additio…

Authors strongly suggested to upload raw data onto Research Data Deposit (RDD) for verification. Model summary

Authors may be invited to share with the peer reviewers during the article evaluation process in a confidential manner the data on which the research is based. Further, as long as the publication of data is not in opposition with patients’ privacy, authors are invited to upload supplemental datasets related to their research to an online repository. Doing so makes it available for both human and m…

Ethical declarations with permit numbers required in Material and Methods; patient privacy and written consent per ICMJE. Model summary

This mandatory field should not be left empty. If your study requires ethical approval, please include the ethical protocols followed and the name of the committee, which approved the study. For example : “This study received ethical approval from the Ethics committee of X hospital under the protocol number XXXX.” If your study does not require ethical approval, please state that : “Ethical approv…

Open access journal Model summary

All articles published in Visualized Cancer Medicine are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Articles are available from the website of the journal (https://vcm.edpsciences.org/), from PubMed Central as soon as the indexation of the journal is effective and from Europe PubMed Central, in various formats.…

Comply with ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals. Model summary

Authors are invited to comply with the “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals”, which were established and made available by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/.

Plagiarism checked via Similarity Check tool; non-compliant articles sent back to authors. Model summary

A frequent reason of immediate rejection is plagiarism. Using the Similarity Check tool for the text, allows to detect even minimal plagiarism. Thus authors are invited to read the ethical standards and apply the given indications in order to avoid this sanction.

Depending on the study design, reporting guidelines such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, STARD should be followed. For more information about these guidelines authors should visit the websites of the EQUATOR network or the corresponding sources at the NLM website. The policy for clinical trial registration by the ICMJE is given in their recommendations. These should be followed by the authors in this …